Add more XPATH support - by Alan Dykes

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I was particularly hoping to get the support of the fn:matches XPATH(http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-matches) function added to SQL Server. It would be nice to have full XPATH functionality. It can be frustrating to fine tune the perfect combination of XPATH, regex, XQUERY, and SQL only to have it fail entirely because of lack of function support. I can kludge a workaround but that takes time and a lot more testing.